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Daniel Merino, Associate Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation

How the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a surprisingly bright, complex and element-filled early universe – Podcast

The James Webb Space Telescope is providing astronomers with images and data that reveal secrets from the earliest era of the universe. NASA/STScI

If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans everywhere, the world has one – the James Webb Space Telescope.

In this episode of “The Conversation Weekly,” we talk to three experts about what astronomers have learned about the first galaxies in the universe and how just six months of data from James Webb is already changing astronomy.

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